Quality Control Technician (Packaging)

Boston Beer Company•Breinigsville, PA

13d•Onsite

About The Position

Boston Beer Company is hiring a full-time Quality Control Technician in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, for a 12-hour day shift. The technician helps ensure products meet quality and integrity standards throughout production and packaging by analyzing samples, monitoring processes, documenting results, and deciding whether products should be released or held. The role works with production and maintenance teams to address quality issues and support continuous improvement. The position includes collecting and analyzing samples at multiple production stages, performing packaging quality checks, operating and calibrating laboratory equipment, and recording test results. The technician uses statistical process control data and standard operating procedures to assess whether production can continue or requires adjustment, shutdown, or a product hold. They investigate defects and process deviations, manage product holds and releases, conduct food-safety audits, maintain retained-product samples, and participate in sensory evaluations and improvement projects. The work takes place in a production environment that may involve loud noise, temperature extremes, elevated platforms, production equipment, and forklifts. Assigned shifts, overtime, weekends, and holidays may be required.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Two to five years of experience in a related field.
Three to five years of general work experience in a production facility or industrial environment.
Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices, basic laboratory and production safety procedures, and statistical process control.
Ability to use computers and automated equipment to enter, review, and interpret data.
Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access.
Ability to work independently with minimal direction and communicate effectively across departments.
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, sometimes repeatedly, and walk or stand for extended periods of up to 11 hours per day.
Ability to crouch, crawl, bend, twist, climb stairs, work from heights or elevated platforms, reach overhead, and wear required personal protective equipment.
Ability to pass a job-specific pre-employment physical examination and, when required for the role, a respirator fit test.

Responsibilities

Collect and analyze product samples at multiple stages of production, including finished products, to verify compliance with quality standards and specifications.
Perform packaging quality checks, including Secure Seal Tests, seam analysis, pasteurization unit testing, fill-level inspections, coding verification, labeling checks, and total package oxygen and carbon dioxide measurements.
Operate and calibrate laboratory equipment, including beer analyzers, and accurately document testing results.
Use statistical process control data and standard operating procedures to determine whether production can continue or requires adjustment, shutdown, or product hold.
Investigate packaging-material defects, leaks, rejected products, process deviations, and out-of-specification materials, and communicate findings to appropriate teams.
Manage product holds and releases by preparing documentation, collecting samples, conducting required analysis, and determining appropriate next steps.
Conduct Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point audits, enforce brewery and food-safety standards, and stop noncompliant processes.
Maintain the product-retain library by collecting, documenting, and storing samples according to brewery procedures and Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau requirements.
Participate in sensory evaluations, packaging-material qualifications, and continuous-improvement projects.
Work assigned shifts, overtime, weekends, and holidays as required.